2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days
2003 After an Ohio FirstEnergy power plants shut down unexpectedly, a power outtage occurs for over ten hours all over northeastern North America
1999 Last upside down date until January 1, 6000
1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men, dies at 68
1995 Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
1994 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
1994 Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
1994 U.S. F-15 accidentally shoots 2 U.S. helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi
1994 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
1992 Toronto down 6-1 in 7th beats A's 7-6 in 11th in AL playoff
1992 Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1992 Europe breaks down trade barriers
1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him
1991 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation
1991 Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn)
1990 Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68,
1990 George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner
1990 Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"
1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension
1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1989 U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1988 U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record
1987 In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
1986 U.S. government closes down due to budget problems
1986 Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1984 U.S. government closes down due to budget problems
1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
1984 U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1984 Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center
1983 Federal government shut down
1983 U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1983 U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1983 U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2
1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet
1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion
1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart
1982 SF's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month
1982 Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1978 Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3
1975 Apple records closes down
1973 Israel shoots down 13 Syrian MIG-21s
1973 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1972 Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
1971 Bill Graham closes down Fillmore and Fillmore East
1971 Madame Spivy [LeVoe], actress (All Fall Down), dies at 64
1970 Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt. Everest
1970 Melanie releases "Lay Down"
1970 NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4)
1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1967 Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 Clara Bow, U.S. actress, (Down to the Sea in Ships, Wings), dies at 60
1965 Chris Burke, actor with down syndrome, Corky-Life Goes On
1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
1964 U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1963 C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down
1962 Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba
1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane
1959 Richard Drummie, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down
1958 Dodgers erect 42-foot screen in left field at LA Coliseum to cut down on home runs, since it is only 250 feet down the line
1956 Hungarian revolt put down
1956 Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses
1956 Chris Foreman, guitarist, Madness-Burning Down the House
1955 Peter Cox, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down
1955 Branch Rickey steps down as GM of the Pirates
1955 2 Egyptian fighters shot down over Israel
1955 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1955 Mark Herndon, Springfield, Massachusetts, country drummer, Alabama-Take Me Down
1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A's to a Philadelphia syndicate
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1954 Lesley-Anne Down, born in London, actress, A Little Night Music, Moonraker
1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1953 Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1952 Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1952 David Byrne, guitarist and vocalist, Talking Heads-Burning Down the House
1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1950 Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
1950 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
1950 U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia
1949 AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1949 Francis Rossi, born in England, guitarist and vocalist, Status Quo-Down Down
1949 Alan Lancaster, bassist, Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level
1945 Bob Seger, Dearborn, Michigan, folk singer, Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down
1944 U.S. capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte
1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore
1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down
1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day
1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
1944 General George Norman Johnson, U.S. singer, Down at the Beach Club
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 John Stax, rocker, Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down
1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit 30 dead
1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die
1943 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1943 Fantastic Johnny C[orley], U.S. singer, Boogaloo down Broadway
1943 RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea
1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth
1943 Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, Texas, bluesy rock singer, Down on Me
1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: USS SD shoots down a record 32 enemy planes
1942 New York Giants beat Washington Redskins 14-7 without making a 1st down
1942 Adolf Opalka, Czech resistance fighter, shot down
1942 Billy Joe Royal, born in Valdosta, Georgia, country singer, Down in the Boondocks
1942 Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1941 1st Messerschmidt 109F shot down above England
1940 12 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 55 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 19 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 4 teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux France discover 17,000-year-old drawings now known as Lascaux Cave Paintings
1940 28 German aircraft shot down above England
1940 71 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1940 38 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 31 German aircraft shot down over England
1939 Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker, Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down
1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1937 Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down
1936 Charlie Daniels, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, singer, Devil Went Down to Georgia
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1935 Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1934 U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1933 National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law, later struck down
1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days
1929 "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
1929 WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
1929 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
1928 Galt MacDermot, Montreal Canada, composer, Letting Down My Hair
1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg
1928 Carole Carr, singer and actress, Down Among the Z Men
1925 Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee
1925 John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down
1923 Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
1921 Harry Secombe, Swansea, Wales, actor, Down Among the "Z" Men
1918 "Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1918 S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1918 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson
1918 NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down
1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan vs. Warley) strikes down Lousiville Kentucky ordiance requiring blacks and whites to live in separate areas
1917 French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1916 U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1916 U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1916 NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats
1916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1915 Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy
1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1914 Alastair Down, CEO, Burmah Oil
1914 Ruth White, born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actress, Up the Down Staircase
1914 Sonny Boy Williamson, [John Lee], blues musician, Down and Out Blues
1913 Carmen Miranda, singer and actress, 4 Jills in a Jeep, Down Argentine Way
1911 Will Rogers, Jr., New York, actor, Down to Earth
1910 U.S. supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1905 Clara Bow, Brooklyn, actress, Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships
1904 Netherlands and Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor
1903 President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1900 U.S. troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1892 Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1890 Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man
1882 Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor, Gorilla Man, Way Down East
1879 Edward Rigby, England, actor, Star Look Down, Young and Innocent
1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down
1872 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Down Amp England, composer, Hugh the Drover
1871 Paris communards revolt put down
1869 1st voyage down Colorado River
1867 Queen Victoria and Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1865 Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War
1861 Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1814 British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1795 Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and U.S. is signed, establishing southern boundary of U.S. and giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1703 Eglon van de Down, still-life painter, dies
1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn
1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1613 Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1600 Henry IV of France invades Savoy after negotiations break down over Saluzzo, controlled by Savoy since 1588
235 Bishop of Rome Pontianus steps down
70 Walls of upper city of Jerusalem battered down by Romans
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